Be patient, spread the word among friends, do your little bit. The system will self-destruct because it is founded on corruption and untruth.

-Anthony Sutton

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Drones Along the Fruited Plain

The all-seeing eye of the surveillance state took a couple
of good pokes last week, a welcome occasion. It is long past time that someone took a stand
and challenged the ongoing dismantling of what was at one time, at least
theoretically a free country. The aftermath of Rep. Justin Amash’s amendment,
the LIBERT-E Act to reign in Obama’s NSA secret police has the establishment
desperately circling the wagons. In a show of bipartisanship unseen in recent
history the toadies of the war machine and the oligarchs that it makes billions
for are in a foaming at the mouth frenzy to put down the insurrection before it
spreads. The risk of the somnolent, television lobotomized masses being roused
from their apathy and stories of royal babies, brides killed in boating mishaps
and a shameless wiener wagging Big Apple mayoral candidate and being roused and freed from their pods in the Matrix scared the hell out of the power structure. If there is one thing that really pisses people off that
is having their privacy invaded, especially by an out of control, corrupt and contemptuous big
government.

The reverberations of the too close for comfort defeat of
Amash’s amendment and the rage over having Senate newbie Rand Paul (who unlike popular
house-pet Marco Rubio does not know his place) speaking out cannot be tolerated.
The House vote exposed a good number of self-proclaimed Republican enemies of
big gubmintas the rank pack of opportunists, frauds and charlatans that they have always been. Fric and Frac, otherwise known as John Boehner and Eric
Cantor were always as suspect as they are historically unprincipled but it was
a shock to see Michelle Bachmann out herself as a full blown protector of the
state and fascism.It is now apparent that she has
been playing her base for fools, schmucks and suckers for years with her bombastic
demagoguery, she has always been in the bag for Leviathan and there are many,
many others. Despite their now obviously staged political dog and pony shows
these three in particular threw in with Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz and other so-called liberals in defending Obama’s war on
America. Now there is yet another outrageous revelation, that the Obama regime has been pressuring web firms for encrypted user password information.

Now emboldened, the 205 members of the House who voted to
revoke the American Stasi’s impunity will guarantee that more challenges are coming and coming
soon. We now have New Jersey Representative Rush Holt proposing a bill to repeal
the USAPATRIOT Act, that insane enabling legislation that domestic enemies of
the republic rolled out and crammed down the throats of shocked Americans while
bodies were still being dug out of the World Trade Center rubble. The
eradication of the USAPATRIOT Act would be a damned good place to start when
considering taking the country back, a national movement to gather and burn
copies of this gospel of fascism would get the attention of the bastards,
especially were it to take place annually on September 10th. Such an idea would instantaneously shatter the
left-right division that is exploited by the criminals running this country and
doomed the Tea Party and Occupy alike, a broad-based coalition to roll back the
usurpers of power and hold them accountable terrifies the establishment and
this is why the savage pushback against Amash, Paul and the ongoing vilification
of Edward Snowden has now been ratcheted up in intensity. There will also be
hearings in Congress this week on NSA abuses that will include an appearance by
journalist Glenn Greenwald who broke the stories on the mass surveillance,
inducing many including the loathsome David Gregory, a loyal foot soldier in
Obama’s war on the free press to suggest that he be arrested and tried.

The latest salvo was spearheaded by state media favorite
and much ballyhooed lap band surgery recipient
Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey. The obese loudmouth who could have played Tony Soprano’s long
lost cousin Porky threw his substantial bulk around like the proverbial bull in
a China shop in launching a sleazy attack on the recent and growing libertarian,
pro-civil liberties, anti-interventionist cadre within the GOP. In his best channeling
of Rudy “Mr. 9/11” Giuliani he bellowed:

“Listen, you can name
any number of people who have engaged in it, and he’s one of them. These
esoteric, intellectual debates—I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across
from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. And they won’t, because
that’s a much tougher conversation to have.”

So now we are back to exploiting 9/11 for political means
and even dragging the poor bereaved families of the victims into the slop, nice job lardass. The
Neocons hate libertarians, they are their bête noire for they exemplify all
that the war freaks led by that smirking little shitball William Kristol and his propaganda machine detest. A libertarian-progressive alliance would be the
worst nightmare for the preening imperialists that used the events of September
11, 2001 as their winning lottery ticket for which to cash in and enrich
themselves, justify their lunatic ideology and hit the reset button on over two
centuries of American democracy. Christie, with his eye on the 2016 GOP
nomination as though it were the buffet table at Golden Corral is just
demonstrating his chops as the chosen one to assume the keys to Obama’s fascist
machine. With Christie and Hillary it is a win-win scenario for the PNAC bunch
and their wet dreams of Middle East conquest.

Joining in piling on Paul was the deranged
Congressman Peter King who surfaced on CNN Sunday morning to launch another of
his trademark attacks, this time on Rand Paul. “I thought it was absolutely disgraceful that so many Republicans voted
to defund the NSA program, which has done so much to protect our country”.King, his jowls quivering like jello also vomited up a fine morsel of the Neocon think tank provided tripe that
has for so long poisoned the discourse as our descent into wars on half the
planet and tyranny at home –

“When you have Rand Paul actually comparing Snowden to
Martin Luther King or Henry David Thoreau ,this is madness, this is the
anti-war Democrats in the 1960s that destroyed their party for almost 15 years”

King of course has zero moral authority considering his support for the terrorist IRA and his McCarthyite anti-Muslim
hearings but he has always been a reliable go to guy for the fascists. It is this
pathological love of state sanctioned murder, oppression, occupation and
torture that is what is destroying this country. Guys like King and his ilk are
corrupt reprobates, government gangsters and psychopaths with no qualms about
gutting the last vestiges of the constitution in this once great country. You
can throw in Christie and King with the other GOP phonies for their praising of
Obama’s wars and domestic oppression programs.

It is notable that for a change neither Senators John McCain nor Lindsay
Graham were on the tube this morning jacking off the likes of David Gregory and
George Stephanopoulos, a welcome and refreshing respite. The duo have been the
foremost spokesmen for murder inc. or Ike referred to it “the military
industrial complex”. The two are always descended upon by hordes of media
bottom-feeders whenever an outrageous quote is needed to bolster the case for
more war. McCain is after all McCain, a self-promoter who may be bi-polar or
just plain batshit crazy, how else to explain his erratic personality and ever
shifting stances. He is also at war with the libertarian wing of the party, like the grouchy old man and the kids on his block, a veteran tantrum thrower, McCain's act only serves to turn him into a parody. Then there is
Graham, the Senator most likely to be discovered in an I-77 truck stop restroom
with someone’s crank in his mouth. Another staple of bloviation day talking
head propaganda shows, Graham is a reliable hysteric and Pentagon congressional
embed who in his shrill but syrupy Gomer Pyle twang always manages to float the
most screwball of trial balloons. Most recently his stumping for an October war on Iran. There is never any money to fix anything in this sorry country, to
address the looming economic collapse rather than speed it up but there is
always money for more war, arming of flesh-eating terrorists, torture centers
and mass spying. I just wonder what the NSA has found over the years trolling
through this guy’s emails and phone records. Man, have our national priorities ever
become terminally fucked up since the day that those buildings fell.

Finally, it yet another sardonically humorous bit of news
the Obama administration on Friday sent a letter to Vladimir Putin stating that
the United States would not torture Edward Snowden if the Russian leader only
collaborates with his terrorist regime and sends the heroic whistleblower off to
his doom. Now I may be getting up there in years but it used to be pretty much
a given that the U.S. did not have to give a non-torture guarantee but that was
before Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and every other CIA torture black site were revealed to be
present although obscured by red, white and blue bunting. I look forward to
hearing what Putin has to say after he stops laughing over this latest self-inflicted
national humiliation by the Nobel Peace Prize winner who draws up kill lists
with his orange juice in the morning.

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